SIN FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Semester 2003

LL)LJL4/3

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Keith Rice-Jones

Designs for Learning: Art

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Office: TBA

Phone: TBA

Mondays

17:30-21:20

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E01.00

EDB 7500B

PREREQUISITE:

Educ 401/402

DESCRIPTION

This course introduces students to the main ideas, skills, materials, resources, understandings, and

organisational concerns involved in teaching art in schools.

PURPOSE

To help students expand their own artistic horizons and build their confidence to better enable them to

develop imaginative and educationally worthwhile programs in art for particular groups.

COURSE CONTENT

The aims of art education; the BC curriculum, artistic creativity and aesthetic appreciation; approaches to

art history; exploring the art gallery; hands-on experience with art media (painting, drawing, clay, crafts,

sculpture/ construction, printmaking, mixed media, found and recycled materials, etc.); art, nature and the

environment; celebrating local distinctiveness; multicultural and feminist issues; integrating the arts; legends

and myths; classroom organisation; curriculum planning; approaches to teaching art; evaluation of programs

and student achievement.

P "IGNMENTS

1.

Completion of classwork and related assignments - 50%

(Portfolio assessment, including aspects of personal growth)

2.

Gallery visit and related critique and curriculum developments - 207o

3.

Curriculum project or personal study - 307o

REQUIRED TEXT

Herberholz, D. & Herberholz, B. (2001). Artworks for Elementary Teachers: Developing Artistic and

Perceptual Awareness, 9th edition.

McGraw-Hill.

RECOMMENDED TEXT

Steele, B. (1998).

Draw Me a Story.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Peguis Publishers.